Amritsar, December 18 –  A large group of protesting farmers  in Amritsar have blocked the Rail Track of Amritsar to Delhi over their  demands that include justice to the victims of Lakhimpur Kheri.

Farmer blocked the rail track while squatting at Devidaspura village near the Manawala railway station falling in the Amritsar district, the main railway track from Amritsar to Delhi.

Meanwhile all the incoming and outgoing trains from Amritsar to Delhi and Delhi to Amritsar have been diverted.

Kissan Mazdoor Morcha (KMM) convener Sarwan Singh Pandher said that a large group of farmers blocked rail tracks across the state for three hours (12.00 pm to 3.00 pm) today due to their various pending demands.

Adding further he said that the farmers were demanding a legal guarantee on the Minimum Support Price (MSP) for crops, along with debt waivers, pensions for farmers and labourers, and justice for the victims of the 2021 Lakhimpur Kheri violence.

Pandher alleged that both the state and the Central governments had deliberately adopted an indifferent approach towards the farmers as not paying any heed to their long pending demands.